On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:44:24 -0500, none wrote:
> I'm trying to decide what is the best replacement for the control. I
> was originally planning on redoing the GUI with wxpython, but I've seen
> people indicate I would have the same problem.
Honestly, if this is important to you, the best thin
On Sun, 08 May 2005 13:46:22 +, John J. Lee wrote:
> I don't mean to put words into FranÃois' mouth, but IIRC he managed,
> for example, GNU tar for some time and, while using some kind of
> tracking system "under the covers", didn't impose it on his users.
>
> IMVHO, that was very nice of him
On Sat, 07 May 2005 15:05:20 -0700, LDD wrote:
> The fact that python doesn't check if the symbol
> AFunctionThatIsntDefined is defined, is really bad when you develop big
> pieces of code. You will never be sure that your code is free of this
> kind of dummy errors and testing every possible execu
On Sat, 07 May 2005 15:43:08 +, jeff elkins wrote:
> ===
> import wx
>
> def create(parent):
> return vents(parent)
>
> [wxID_VENTS, wxID_VENTSEXITBUTTON,
> wxID_VENTSVENTTYPETEXT,
> [snip]
>
> ] = [wx.NewId() for _init_ctrls in range(14) ]
>
> class vents(wx.Dialog):
>
On Sat, 07 May 2005 12:10:46 -0400, FranÃois Pinard wrote:
> [Martin von LÃwis]
>
>> FranÃois Pinard wrote:
>>
>> > Am I looking in the wrong places, or else, should not the standard
>> > documentation more handily explain such things?
>
>> It should, but, alas, it doesn't. Contributions are wel
On Sat, 07 May 2005 13:24:34 +, jeff elkins wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I've written a program that calls an imported dialog to gather some needed
> input. What's the common method for passing that data back to the caller?
> I've
> tried a 'return data' prior to self.Close() ... all that happens t
On Sun, 08 May 2005 02:42:09 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'm thinking what I might need is a function that generates a Borg-like
> class. So I would do something like:
>
> Rabbit = MakeBorgClass()
> # Rabbit is now a class implementing shared state
> # all instances of Rabbit share the same st
On Sat, 07 May 2005 07:16:58 -0700, lamthierry wrote:
> Is there some python method which can do the polling you are talking
> about? Or can you send me a link to some existing example?
Take a moment to go back to the basics. C++ is, in general, a simple
system. The *language* is complicated at t
On Fri, 06 May 2005 19:56:34 -0700, lamthierry wrote:
> Let's say I have the following source code in C++:
>
> // The following is in a .cpp file
>
> int val = 0;
> for ( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ )
>val = i;
>
>
> // Now I'm in a python GUI, glade or GTK
> Is it possible from the GUI side to
On Fri, 06 May 2005 08:27:03 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Jeremy Bowers wrote:
>
>> > A step which will require him to tell the printing routine how many
>> > digits he wants printed.
>>
>> Not necessarily; consider the str() of a float in Python, especia
On Thu, 05 May 2005 20:08:46 -0700, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Grant's point was that as significance is used in scientific studies,
> there's no way to answer the question without having the number in
> advance.
My point was that the original poster never defined "significance" in that
manner, and
On Fri, 06 May 2005 02:44:43 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-05-05, Jeremy Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Since I think he mentioned something about predicting how much space it
>> will take to print out, my suggestion is to run through whatever
>> p
On Thu, 05 May 2005 18:42:17 +, Charles Krug wrote:
> On 5 May 2005 10:37:00 -0700, mrstephengross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Hi all... How can I find out the number of significant digits (to the
>> right of the decimal place, that is) in a double? At least, I *think*
>> that's what I'm a
On Thu, 05 May 2005 09:30:21 +0800, could ildg wrote:
> Jeremy Bowers wrote:
>> Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 3 2005, 17:32:12) [GCC 3.4.3 (Gentoo Linux
>> 3.4.3, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.6.6)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright",
>> "credits" or "
On Wed, 04 May 2005 20:33:31 +, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> With the EmptyGeneratorDetector class as you defined it, lists will fail:
>
> >>> EmptyGeneratorDetector([])
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "", line 1, in ?
>File "", line 15, in __init__
> AttributeError: 'list' objec
On Wed, 04 May 2005 20:24:51 +0800, could ildg wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> I just learned how to use re, so I want to find a way to settle it by
> using re. I know that split it into pieces will do it quickly.
I'll say this; you have two problems, splitting out the numbers and
verifying their confor
On Wed, 04 May 2005 13:45:00 +, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> Jeremy Bowers wrote:
>> def __init__(self, generator):
>> self.generator = generator
>
> You'll want to use iter(generator) there in order to handle reiterables.
Can you expand that explanation a
On Mon, 02 May 2005 16:14:57 -0700, Brian Roberts wrote:
> Q1: Is there a better or alternate way to handle this? Q2: Is there a way
> that handles both lists and generators, so I don't have to worry about
> which one I've got?
Are you in control of your generators? You could put a method on them
On Mon, 02 May 2005 16:37:19 -0500, phil wrote:
> I will defend one statement though. I have yet to see anything which
> Python would not make a good wrapper for. Some of the OpenGL pygame stuff
> is very cool.
Alright, you got me :-) I got excessively broad.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/l
On Mon, 02 May 2005 13:58:07 -0500, phil wrote:
> You didn't indicate how deep you want to get into the code yourself.
>
> I am gonna step way out of my mathematical depth here
I mean no disrespect, but this is the last accurate statement you made.
I wouldn't say this, except that if the origin
On Sun, 01 May 2005 06:18:27 -0700, Engineer wrote:
> The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a
> "standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be
> "safe."
"Melissa". (Google hint: "Virus".)
Given the brazen stupidity demonstrated by these decisio
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:00:57 -0700, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> I want to make an app to help students study foreign language. I want the
> following function in it:
>
> The student reads a piece of text to the microphone. The software records
> it and compares it to the wave-file pre-recorded by th
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:53:14 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:
> The re docs clearly say this is not the case:
>
> '''
> []
> Used to indicate a set of characters. Characters can be listed
> individually, or a range of characters can be indicated by giving two
> characters and separating them by a "
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:34:44 -0700, demon_slayer2839 wrote:
> Hey yall,
> I'm new to Python and I love it. Now I can get most of the topics
> covered with the Python tutorials I've read but the one thats just
> stumping me is Object Orientation. I can't get the grasp of it. Does
> anyone know of a
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:17:07 +0200, andrea wrote:
> I was thinking to code the huffman algorithm and trying to compress
> something with it, but I've got a problem.
> How can I represent for example a char with only 3 bits??
> I had a look to the compression modules but I can't understand them muc
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:52:21 -0700, James Stroud wrote:
> Thank you to everybody helping me. I think I am almost there...
>
> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 12:10 pm, so sayeth Jeremy Bowers:
>> 2. Use a fixed-width font and manually wrap. (It's pretty easy then, you
>> can
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:52:14 -0700, James Stroud wrote:
> This is more or less what I would like, but I would also like to probe the
> Text to see how many characters it thinks it can display within the container
> window. I am formatting text dynamically and so I rely on the width. I am not
> a
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:56:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have this line of numbers:
>
>
> 04242005 18:20:42-0.02, 271.1748608, [-4.119873046875,
> 3.4332275390625, 105.062255859375], [0.093780517578125, 0.041015625,
> -0.960662841796875], [0.01556396484375, 0.01220703
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:24:06 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Jeremy Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:40:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> os.remove, as the module name implies, tells the OS to do something. I
>> would consider an OS that
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:15:35 -0700, willitfw wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am looking for some guidance on a script.
>
> My goals are:
> 1) have this script run automatically through a time set schedule.
> 2) verify if a file is updated on an ftp site (usually on the 15th of
> the month).
> 3) If the u
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:54:53 +, Robin Becker wrote:
> Skip Montanaro wrote:
> ...
>> If I mmap() a file, it's not slurped into main memory immediately, though as
>> you pointed out, it's charged to my process's virtual memory. As I access
>> bits of the file's contents, it will page in only w
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:24:30 +0200, andreas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:13:20PM -0400, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:40:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > Hello Mike,
>> > I have to know this topic otherwise my program has to ch
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:32:29 +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
> Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> Robin> So we avoid dirty page writes etc etc. However, I still think I
>> Robin> could get away with a small window into the file which would be
>> Robin> more efficient.
>>
>> It's hard to imagine how
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:40:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello Mike,
> I have to know this topic otherwise my program has to check whether the
> file / files are already deleted and this is a little bit messy.
I would be fairly confident in asserting that assuming the file is there,
you hav
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:12:07 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Right. But that shouldn't be hard to do. Let genexp stand for a a
> generator expression/list comprehension without any brackets on it at all.
> Then [genexp] is the syntax to expand the list. [(genexp)] is the syntax
> to create a list of one
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:00:57 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Why do we have to wait for Python 3.0 for this? Couldn't list
> comprehensions and generator expression be unified without breaking
> existing code that didn't deserve to be broken?
We don't; my mentioning 3.0 was just in reference to a previ
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:26:56 +, John Bokma wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>
>> John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nobody ever changed their mind as a result of a 20-thread endless
reply-fest. As usual, the posters aren't about to admit anything, and none
of the bystanders are reading any mor
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:48:46 -0400, Bill Mill wrote:
> On 25 Apr 2005 23:33:48 +0300, Ville Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Still, list comprehensions should be implemented in terms of genexps to
>> get rid of the LC variable that is visible outside the scope of the LC.
>>
>>
> +1 . I thin
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:59:12 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
> Never. If you really need a list
>
> list(x*x for x in xrange(10))
>
> Sadly, we can't remove list comprehensions until 3.0.
Why "remove" them? Instead, we have these things called "comprehensions"
(which, now that I say that, seems a rath
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:45:14 -0400, Richard Blackwood wrote:
> Indeed, this language is math. My friend says that foo is a constant and
> necessarily not a variable. If I had written foo = raw_input(), he would
> say that foo is a variable. Which is perfectly fine except that he insists
> that sinc
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:13:24 +0200, Mage wrote:
> Avoid them is easy with set_type($value,"integer") for integer values and
> correct escaping for strings.
"Avoiding buffer overflows in C is easy, as long as you check the buffers
each time."
The *existence* of a technique to avoid problems is not
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:20:29 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> which discusses draw_rgb_image and friends, and says that "if you can
> convert your PIL image to a pixel data string or buffer object, you could
> use them to display the image". here's some code that seems to do exactly
> that:
>
>
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:43:13 -0400, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> (Use case, in case it matters: I am trying to embed a graphic into a text
> widget. This is going fine. Because I want the text widget to be able use
> different size text, and no one image can look right with everything from
>
I have an image in the Python Image Library. I'm trying to get it into
PyGTK in color. Is there any way to do this cross-platform, preferably
without writing to anything to the disk?
PIL apparently can't write XPMs. GTK will only take XPMs, that I can see.
Therein lies the rub. I can ship over mon
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:44:56 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Will McGugan wrote:
>
>> Muchas gracias. Although there may be a bug. I compressed my Evanescence
>> albumn, but after decompression it became the complete works of Charles
>
> strange. the algorithm should be reversible. sounds like a
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:14:03 +0200, Mage wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I amafraid of I will stop using semicolons in other languages after one
> or two months of python. However I see that python simply ignores the
> semicolons atd the end of the lines.
>
> What's your advice? I don't want to write
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:02:27 -0700, Ken Godee wrote:
> The original poster was just asking for an example of
> how to sub class his code generated form into his program
> for easy future updates, a "VERY STANDARD" way of doing it.
I recognize your sarcasm, and I recognize the poor attitude it show
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:57:26 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>> Domain-specific abstractions do that *faster* than GUI designers, not
>> slower. And better, too, since every iteration tends to be fully
>> functional and not just a "let's see what this looks like" prototype.
>
> Can you show me som
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:59:18 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>> why use data files when you have an extremely powerful programming
>> language in your toolbox? the advantage of building UI's in Python is
>> that you can quickly create "domain specific UI languages", and use them
>> to generate the
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:53 -0600, Matthew Thorley wrote:
> I must say I am *very* suprised that python does not have a way to look
> up what key is pointing to a given object--without scanning the whole
> list that is.
Assuming fairly optimal data structures, nothing is free.
Python chooses not
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:32:37 +, SÃbastien de Menten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I need to make sense of a python exception, I often need to parse the
> string exception in order to retrieve the data.
What exactly are you doing with this info? (Every time I started to do
this, I found a better way
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:49:51 -0700, ritterhaus wrote:
> Nope. Does't work. Running Python 2.3.4 on Debian, Linux kernel 2.6. This
> is actually test code for a larger project...
>
> # flash the selected wx.TextControl
>
> for flasher in range(4):
> self.textField.SetBackgroundColour(255, 0,
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:50:35 +, John J. Lee wrote:
> What I don't understand about py.test (and trying it out seems
> unlikely to answer this) is why it uses the assert statement.
> unittest used to do that, too, but then it was pointed out that that
> breaks when python -O is used, so unittest
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:02:20 -0400, Brian van den Broek wrote:
> Jeremy suggested using a directory name akin to
> "C:\onlyanidiotwouldhavethisdirecotrynameonadrive". That is what I had
> settled on before I posted. Somehow it feels unhappy and inelegant.
> But, I'm a bit less uncomfortable with
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:30:13 -0500, Brian van den Broek wrote:
> So, how does one handle such cases with tests?
When I had a similar situation, I created a directory for testing that was
in a known state, and tested on that. If you can test based on a relative
directory, that should work OK.
Non-
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 02:02:31 +0200, andrea_gavana wrote:
> Hello Jeremy & NG,
> Every user of thsi big directory works on big studies regarding oil fields.
> Knowing the amount of data (and number of files) we have to deal with
> (produced
> by simulators, visualization tools, and so on) and know
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:00:34 +0200, andrea_gavana wrote:
> Hello Jeremy & NG,
> ...
> I hope to have been clearer this time...
>
> I really welcome all your suggestions.
Yes, clearer, though I still don't know what you're *doing* with that data :-)
Here's an idea to sort of come at the problem
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:01:49 -0500, Brian Beck wrote:
> py> from itertools import groupby
> py> [''.join(g) for k, g in groupby(' test ing ', lambda x: x.isspace())]
> [' ', 'test', ' ', 'ing', ' ']
>
> I tried replacing the lambda thing with an attrgetter, but apparently my
> understanding of
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:01:25 +, F. Petitjean wrote:
> Le Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:39:47 -0500, Terry Reedy a Ãcrit :
>> This is equivalent to '(that is it) and (it is not it)' which is clearly
>> false.
>>
>>> False # What ?
>>
>> Reread the ref manual on chained comparison operators.
>
> And s
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:20:51 -0800, RickMuller wrote:
> I'm trying to split a string into pieces on whitespace, but I want to
> save the whitespace characters rather than discarding them.
>
> For example, I want to split the string '12' into ['1','','2'].
> I was certain that there was a
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:52:52 -0500, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
Oops, sorry, some "send later" messages I thought were gone got sent.
Sorry. Didn't mean to revive dead threads.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:49:53 +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> The
> people who hate pie-decorators post a _lot_ - most people seem to either
> not care, or else post once or twice and then disappear.
I just posted on another mailing list about how posting the same message,
over and over, is fundamen
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:38:34 +0200, andrea.gavana wrote:
> Hello NG,
>
> in my application, I use os.walk() to walk on a BIG directory. I
> need
> to retrieve the files, in each sub-directory, that are owned by a
> particular user. Noting that I am on Windows (2000 or XP), this is wha
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:02:53 -0500, Gabriel Cooper wrote:
> Ron_Adam wrote:
>
>>To me ":=" could mean to create a copy of an object... or should it
>>be "=:" ?
>>
>>Or how about ":=)" to mean is equal and ":=(" to mean it's not.
>>
>>Then there is ";=)", to indicate 'True', and ':=O' to indicate
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:06:17 -0800,
'@'.join([..join(['fred','dixon']),..join(['gmail','com'])]) wrote:
I'd also suggest
validInput = "ABCDEFGHIJKL" # and there are more clever ways to do this,
# but this will do
myInput = raw_input(" ".join(validInput) + "?")
if len(
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:56:55 +, Ron_Adam wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:47:06 -0500, Jeremy Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>Is this an April Fools gag? If so, it's not a very good one as it's quite
>>in line with the sort of question I've seen man
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:30:56 +, Ron_Adam wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to test function arguments by adding a
> decorator.
The rest of your message then goes on to vividly demonstrate why
decorators make for a poor test technique.
Is this an April Fools gag? If so, it's not a very goo
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:42:30 +, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> FWIW, the evolution of py.test is to also work seemlessly with existing tests
> from the unittest module.
Is this true now, or is this planned?
I read(/skimmed) the docs for py.test when you linked to the project, but
I don't recall
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:30:42 -0800, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Daniel Silva wrote:
>
>> Shriram Krishnamurthi has just announced the following elsewhere; it might
>> be of interest to c.l.s, c.l.f, and c.l.p:
>> http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2005-April/008382.html
>
> April Fool's
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:07:01 -0800, EP wrote:
> Then... about the time you start to try to build a real application with
> JavaScript, it will start to drive you mad... and you will have a new,
> greater affection for Python.
Actually, if you dig into it really hard, it's not bad. In fact of all t
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:42:03 +, Tim Tyler wrote:
> I very much favour the smalltalk-inspired idea of keeping the actual
> language as small as is reasonably possible.
>
> I wonder if there are any promising new kids on the dynamic
> scripting-language block that I haven't heard about yet - i.e
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:31:33 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
> Now, what happened to the whitespace idea here? This code seems very
> unpythonic. I think : is great for slices and lamda where things go on one
> line, but to require it to specify the start of a block of code seems a
> little perlish.
It
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:22:09 -0800, Ray wrote:
> Can you point me to "Python for Java Programmers" resources? I found one
> blog, but that only touched the tip of the iceberg, I feel. I know that as
> I use Python more and read more books and read how experienced Python
> programmers code, eventual
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:35:34 +0100, kramb64 wrote:
> I'm trying to use setattr inside a module.
> From outside a module it's easy:
>
> import spam
> name="hello"
> value=1
> setattr(spam, name, value)
>
> But if I want to do this inside the module spam itself, what I've to
> pass to setattr as f
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:18:14 -0500, Steve Holden wrote:
> Since it's PyCon week, I will offer a prize of $100 to the best (in my
> opinion) limerick about Python posted to this list (with a Cc: to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) before midday on Friday. The prize money will be my
> own, so there are no oth
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:30:05 +, Abdul Hafiz al-Muslim wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Python and still learning.
>
> I am looking for a way to change the keyboard output within Tkinter - for
> example, say I press "p" and I want to come out as "t".
>
> Could anyone point me in the right direction
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:07:40 -0800, Kay Schluehr wrote:
> It is bad OO design, George. I want to be a bit more become more
> specific on this and provide an example:
Having thought about this for a bit, I agree it is a powerful
counter-argument and in many other languages I'd consider this a total
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:28:51 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2005 04:45 pm, Robert Kern wrote:
>> > This would be very unambiguous.
>>
>> Not entirely.
>>
>> > Then, the purity would manifest itself the naked comma being an empty
>> > tuple. Think about the zen of:
>> >
>> > Â Â
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:35:57 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> The real problem is that newbies won't know which features are "meta"
> features best left to experts, and which features are ok for everyday
> programmers to use.
>
> We recently saw a thread (couldn't find it in google groups) where
> some
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:21:48 -0800, Paul Boddie wrote:
> Well, I've been using Python for almost ten years, and I've managed to
> deliberately ignore descriptors and metaclasses quite successfully. I get
> the impression that descriptors in particular are a detail of the
> low-level implementation
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:21:19 -0800, George Jempty wrote:
> I'm noticing that Javascript's array/"hash" literal syntax is EXACTLY the
> same as that for Python lists/dictionaries.
No it isn't, quite.
Two differences of note, one literally syntax and one technically not but
you probably still want
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:25:43 -0800, jrlen balane wrote:
> i am working on an MDIParentFrame and MDIChildFrame. Now, what i want
> to do is make the ChildFrame not that easy to close by removing the
> close button (the X on the right most corner of the window) if this is
> possible...
>
> how am i
> What i want is to declare in the decorator some code that is common to all
> these functions, so the functions assume that the decorator will be there
> and wont need to duplicate the code provided by it, and the functions are
> not known ahead of time, it has to be dynamic.
This sounds like a c
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:48:42 -0800, Martin Miller wrote:
> I'm trying to create some read-only instance specific properties, but the
> following attempt didn't work:
I'm going to echo Steven's comment: "What's the situation in which you
think you want different properties for different instances
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:27:06 -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> Most of my program lives in a class. My plan is to have a superclass
> that performs the generic functions and subclasses to define methods
> specific to each platform
> I'm just getting up to speed on Python and OOP, so I'm wondering
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:38:36 -0500, Charles Hartman wrote:
> I'm still shaky on some of sre's syntax. Here's the task: I've got
> strings (never longer than about a dozen characters) that are
> guaranteed to be made only of characters 'x' and '/'. In each string I
> want to find the longest con
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:47:42 +, Paul Moore wrote:
> This can probably be tidied up and improved, but it may be a
> reasonable workaround for something like the original example.
This is why even though in some sense I'd love to see yield *expr, I can't
imagine it's going to get into the langua
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:54:14 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Douglas Alan wrote:
>> Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>Guido has generally observed a parsimony about the introduction of
>>>features such as the one you suggest into Python, and in particular
>>>he is reluctant to add new keywo
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:42:51 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> yield
yield *
(Mu-hu-ha-ha-ha!)
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:31:12 +1300, Blair Hall wrote:
> I have a requirement to prevent 'accidental' tampering
> with some software written in Python. If I ensure that all
> of the modules concerned are compiled into .pyc's, and remove
> the .py's to another location, then I should be safe until
>
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:14:55 +1100, news.sydney.pipenetworks.com wrote:
> I always wished computer science was more engineering then philosophy.
> That way there'd always be an obvious answer.
I hear that!
To be fair, computer *science* is more like mathematics than philosophy;
once a correctly-
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:51:47 -0800, elena wrote:
> I can go to my friends, however it occurred to me that it might be
> better to post in a newsgroup and get a larger, more diverse, and
> random sample.
Larger, yes, more diverse, yes, more random, probably not in the
statistical/scientific sense.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:00:59 -0700, Dave Benjamin wrote:
> Jeremy Bowers wrote:
>> I'd point out that the Zen that can be comprehended by checking off items
>> in a list is not the true Zen.
>
> The Zen that can be imported is not the eternal Zen. =)
Yes, there
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:19:44 +1100, news.sydney.pipenetworks.com wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. Let's see how many zen points are for the OP's
> idea vs against
Along with the fact that I agree with Nick that you've seriously
miscounted (most of your "fors" are simply irrelevant and I think you
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:20:36 +, Will McGugan wrote:
> I'm accumulating a number of small functions, which I have sensibly put
> in a single file called 'util.py'. But it occurs to me that with such a
> generic name it could cause problems with other modules not written by
> myself. Whats the
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:49:38 +, Stephen Kellett wrote:
> Incorrect analysis. This thread proves that you have no concept of how
> to interact with the community. If you had done what many people asked
> you to do, which is do some work yourself, then ask questions about the
> few answers you
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:22:01 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
> It seems I need constructs like this all of the time
>
> i = 0
> while i < len(somelist):
> if oughta_pop_it(somelist[i]):
> somelist.pop(i)
> else:
> i += 1
>
> There has to be a better way...
>
> Any thoughts?
Others have p
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:18:57 +0900, Wonjae Lee wrote:
> I read the comment of
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/277753.
> (Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory)
>
> "perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g'" trick looks handy.
> Does Python have a s
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:45:09 -0800, Robert Kern wrote:
> Until such matters are unequivocally determined in a court that has
> jurisdiction over you, do you really want to open yourself to legal risk
> and certain ill-will from the community?
Huh? What are you talking about?
I'm just pointing out
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:24:22 +0100, Damjan wrote:
> What you described is not ok according to the GPL - since you distributed
> a binary thats derived from GPL software (and you didn't publish it source
> code under the GPL too).
No you didn't. You distributed a binary completely free of any GPL c
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